Author: Logan

An AI visibility audit provides a structured approach for search and brand teams to assess how their brand shows up on platforms like Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. It measures where the brand is mentioned in AI search platforms, how often, how accurately, and based on which sources. Here’s a step-by-step process for how…

Your brand presence shouldn’t depend on luck, algorithms, or guesswork. It should be built and improved with precision so you show up in all the places that matter, exactly as you want to be represented.  That’s what a brand gap analysis enables. It also turns brand visibility from a vague concept into something measurable and…

Not every blog post you publish will rank in search engines. Even if you’ve done keyword research and written great content, it’s not always possible to get things right on your first attempt. For example, we published a post about “what is SEO” in late 2018. It wasn’t a complete failure, but it never ranked higher…

I analyzed the top 1,000 pages ChatGPT cited in September 2025 using Ahrefs Brand Radar, to understand what types of content AI is referencing right now. You can repeat this analysis yourself pretty easily. Just do an open database search in Brand Radar, head to the “Cited pages” report for your desired AI assistant, and export…

How many clicks and impressions come from rankings beyond Google’s first page? To find out, we analysed 458 billion clicks and 17 trillion impressions from Google Search Console. Our findings are a good reminder: page one is where the overwhelming majority of clicks and impressions happen. 96.98% of desktop clicks happen in the top 10 In August…

With the recent launch of our remote MCP server, anyone can now chat directly with Ahrefs data to get actionable SEO insights. MCP, which stands for Model Context Protocol, is an open standard that companies can use to integrate their external tools and data with compatible AI assistants. Imagine you’ve recently launched a new clothing…

Get the week’s best marketing content You don’t need another debate about whether optimizing for AI counts as SEO. You need to know what to actually do.  This checklist combines proven SEO essentials with the new steps that matter for AI search. No fluff, no fuss. It will help you strengthen your SEO foundation, adapt to…

Get the week’s best marketing content You don’t need another debate about whether optimizing for AI counts as SEO. You need to know what to actually do.  This checklist combines proven SEO essentials with the new steps that matter for AI search. No fluff, no fuss. It will help you strengthen your SEO foundation, adapt to…

This isn’t a generic roundup of the “best” marketing podcasts. Ahead of Ahrefs Evolve 2025, we asked our speakers and panelists to share the shows they actually listen to, the ones that make them better marketers, leaders, and thinkers. From deep dives into AI to frank discussions on what’s working in content, these are the…

There are hundreds of marketing newsletters competing for your attention. Maybe thousands. So I did something different: I asked the speakers and panelists at Ahrefs Evolve, our conference in San Diego from October 13-15, which newsletters they actually read and recommend. The result? A curated list of newsletters that span SEO, media, tech, leadership, and…